Friday, December 9, 2011

3 distinctive artists under the umbrella "Ceremony of Innocence". Inspired by Yeats' "The second coming" NO!R believes that The Second Coming will not appear as a beast, but is in fact the ever present shadow of fear that prevails in our world and blinds us, turning most of us from the light.

Christopher Hassett: I’ve had no formal training, though when it comes to the
artistic expression of self I tend to mistrust that kind of training
anyhow. Not that I don’t see its merits; it’s just that I’m also very
aware of the risk of some greater loss in going down that path, of
precious individuality or the organic growth of a truly authentic
voice. Besides, I’ve been steeped in the academic world for decades,
both as a professor and as a student. At the time when I began painting
I was finishing up a degree at UCLA and wanted nothing to do with
another teacher. Further instruction felt like the willful ingestion of
poison. Instead, I simply stumbled headlong into the process: I
painted and painted over paintings and threw away paintings and
continued painting.
From the beginning I was only interested in the body. I wanted to
master it in its many forms, but I did so by largely fetishizing its
various limbs, obsessively working on hands and faces and eyeballs and
skin. That sense of obsession, perhaps even digression or dysfunction, I
think is still present in my work, if not its defining character–a kind
of severe formality I sense only now is beginning to slip.
Source: www.interviewsaloud.com

Rachel Wilkie, Sarah Dueth

Sarah Dueth

Sarah Dueth grew up in North Carolina.
She graduated from Boston University (SFA) in 1997 with special
distinction, a Dean’s Scholarship, and a full summer residency at Yale
University’s School of Music and Art in Norfolk, CT.
She was awarded a Mortimer-Hayes Brandeis traveling fellowship in 1997
to study Aboriginal art for a year in Australia. Upon return, she
moved to Brooklyn and began to build a new body of work, while working
in NYC for Christopher Spitzmiller, and Stephen Weiss.
In 2002, Sarah became a mother, and shortly after, moved to Warsaw,
Poland for 2 years with her husband. Upon returning to the states in
2007 she began the voluminous “Girl” Series. She has exhibited in
Boston, NYC, and New Jersey. Sarah has donated her work to raise money
for foundations such as the Lance Armstrong Foundation. To see more
work visit www.sarahdueth.com Sarah lives and works in the suburbs of Manhattan.